All Chapters of The Billionaire’s Cook: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

AlessioThe limo began to slowly cruise down the road while Coraline held my stare, locked in unflinching eye contact with me.She looked breathtaking. But she also looked cool and detached, like she wasn’t impressed by everything I had done to get her sitting here with me.“You planned all of this,” she finally said.“Yes.” I answered even though it hadn’t been posed as a question.“Without my consent.”“Yes.”“Why?”“Because you wouldn’t have agreed easily if I went the normal route and asked you.”“You’re right. I wouldn’t have.” Her body was angled away from me and I hated it. I ached to touch her. To yank her close and bury my face in her sweet-smelling neck. It had been too long and I fucking ached.“Where are we going?” she asked. Now she wasn’t even looking at me any longer, choosing instead to stare straight ahead at the tinted glass of the privacy partition. And she sounded slightly upset for some reason.“It’s a surprise.” I answered on a quick breath before repeating my ea

Coraline My head lolled forward against Alessio’s right shoulder. “I shouldn’t have drank that much wine.” I moaned as my vision swam.“Are you trying to change the subject, Coraline?” He shifted beneath me and the hard bulge of his fully erect cock through his suit pants made itself evidently known against my ass.“About the hockey game,” I sniffed and raised my head to look into two pairs of his strikingly blue eyes, “if you had called that night, I wouldn’t have gone. So it’s your fault, not mine.”He raised two brows. “Is that so?”My head bobbed up and down multiple times until he steadied it with his hand.“I waited for your call like a fool.” I said. “But it didn’t come. I was thinking maybe you were held up with work. So I waited again the next day. And then the next, and the next. Until it was a full week.” I blinked slowly, trying to focus my vision as my head tilted with genuine curiosity. “Why didn’t you call? Am I that easily forgettable?”He caught my head when it kept

Alessio“She’s breathing, but barely.” Mr. Penney commented after withdrawing his fingers from an unconscious Coraline’s neck. I had immediately rushed her to the car downstairs when she passed out in front of me. Ash had followed, frantic with worry and on the verge of a nervous breakdown.When I tossed her my phone to put the doctor on speed dial, she had done so immediately and without questions.Now she was sitting beside Coraline on my bed, watching with watery eyes as Mr. Penney put her on oxygen and set up an IV line.“Is it alcohol poisoning?” I finally asked him when he leaned away to rummage through his medical supplies, my emotions under a firm mask.“Yes,” he replied succinctly. “She drank too much in a little amount of time for her body size. She also has low blood sugar which caused the fainting. She’s going to be fine after I give her glucose and anti-nausea medication.”“The last time this happened they had to flush her stomach in the hospital and keep her under obser

CoralineI wasn’t tasting the food I was eating.I tried to seem like I was enjoying it but didn’t really think I was doing a decent job of that because Ash kept throwing me worried glances and asking what was wrong.“Right, before I forget,” she suddenly said just as I took the last painful bite and grabbed my glass of water. “David was blowing up your phone this morning. Call him back before he goes into an aneurysm because he thinks you’ve been kidnapped or something.”She handed me my phone. “Bryan also sent a couple of messages.”I quenched my thirst before going straight to dial David’s number first.“This better be Coraline and not a kidnapper asking for ransom money.” Were his first words the second the line connected.I made a face while shaking my head. “Tone down on the dramatics, will you?”“I will not. Girl, do you need fresh education on the proper usage of your mobile device? Or wait, and why didn’t I think of this before, was yesterday night that eventful with Mr. Sexy

AlessioThe moment Ash explained the situation to me, I went into my office and contacted my attorney.They had been sending her messages, threatening to forcefully take Coraline hostage if she failed to meet their deadline. That was why she had sent Coraline off to stay at a friend’s place for a while.It hadn’t been a smart move. They would have found her easily and followed through on their threats the moment their time ran out.My fingers tightened into a fist on my desk, thinking about how I had been none-the-wiser to everything that had been going on.Anger simmered in my veins because she hadn’t come to me for help. She hadn’t told me anything, foolishly choosing to figure it out on her own like that was even a realistic option for her.The sheer recklessness of her reasoning was enough to harden my jaw and set my teeth on edge. Did she really believe that there was no one for her to turn to?Even more infuriating was the fact that I hadn’t realized the issues she was facing on